One hundred doctors will attend the International Congress of Palliatives in San Miguel de Allende

Published February 16, 2023

Everything is ready for the First International Congress Hospice and Palliative Care “Tender Care and Cielito Lindo”, to be held at Rancho Los Labradores in San Miguel de Allende on February 24 and 25. (See the details here)

The above announced the engineer Sergio Cházaro president of the organizing committee who added that a hundred doctors are expected from Brazil, Argentina, as well as from all over Mexico.

Among the speakers was the participation of Dr. José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, who was federal health secretary in the government of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.

Likewise, he highlighted the presence of the former first lady of Mexico, Marta Sahagún de Fox, who will speak about the rehabilitation of the elderly, this as president of the Vamos México foundation.

Sergio Cházaro stressed that the topics to be presented at the congress will be about scientific advances in palliative medicine, as well as psychology topics focused on thanatology.

“The specialists who attend the congress are related to palliative care, understanding what are given to evicted people to help them die well and obviously their respective families, this because it is a transient and a very difficult period when they are terminal diseases, mainly in Mexico we look like many diseases of diabetes and cancer, which are painful and distressing for the relatives as well as for the patient,” Cházaro said.

He explained that in addition to doctors, people who want to know about psychology for the help and care of older adults, especially those suffering from terminal illnesses, are also enrolling.

“The technological advance of medicine has given rise to this specialty of palliative care to take care of people who fall into this state, so that they do not suffer the last three or six months they have left to live and we help the families who take care of them, this is the objective of the congress,” he emphasized.

“Psychology has a lot to do to understand the process both in the family and individually on the part of the patient, which is one of the main topics, and another is the high specialty of palliative care, especially to prepare nurses, caregivers, doctors, specialists, so that they know how to manage the family and the patient in terms of pain and psychology, so that this complex period becomes much easier, much more livable and does not leave the whole family traumatized”, he emphasized.

The congress will have a duration of approximately 12 hours between the 12 speakers, during the two days of development.

Currently the Cielito Lindo center has 33 people, Mexicans and foreigners, who receive medical and psychological care with their families in San Miguel de Allende.

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